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A Few Days In Safari Paradise 2016

By |2 Dec 2016|Categories: Africa, Amphibians, Antelopes, baboons, Big cats, Camera trap, Cheetahs, Crocodilians, Dik-diks, Elephants, Kenya, Lions, Mammals, Reptiles, Sunsets, Wildlife, Workshops & safaris, zebras|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

2016 was another fabulous year on safari! I thought I'd collect some of my images and a short film I made together in one blog post to show you what an awesome spectacle the Masai Mara is and what fun we had photographing the incredible wildlife. 2017 will be our [...]

Tits on the Town Moor!

By |20 Jan 2016|Categories: BBC Town Moor Project, Birds, Newcastle & Tyneside, North East England, Tits, Wildlife|

A blue tit forages for insects in the dead leaves Looking thoroughly stumped a few days earlier: all the wildlife had vanished. Like the train companies say: wrong kind of snow. As part of my #bbctownmoor project, I popped out yesterday to take [...]

Winter fun on the beach – karate and Irish dancing!

By |9 Jan 2016|Categories: Dance, Filmmaking / Video, Irish dancing, Martial arts, Sport|

This winter has been the wettest, greyest and most miserable that I can remember :-/ During the Christmas holidays we had one single day of sunshine. So what did we do on that day? Went to the beach, obviously. Buckets, spades and knotted handkerchiefs didn't seem appropriate, so we had [...]

Kenya Photo Safari 2015 Blog Part 2

By |31 Dec 2015|Categories: Africa, Antelopes, Big cats, Birds, Bustards, Coucals, Dik-diks, Elephants, giraffes, Hornbills, Kenya, Kingfishers, lapwings, Leopards, Lions, Long-claws, Mammals, Ostriches, Quails, Shrikes, Sunsets, Topi, Wildlife, Workshops & safaris, zebras|

Day 2 Now then, if day 1 hadn't been gripping enough, day 2 was about to get off to a unimaginably good start. We headed out early - always just before dawn for the best light - to see what was out and about. Then one of the drivers got [...]

Kenya Photo Safari 2015 Blog Part 1

By |30 Dec 2015|Categories: Africa, baboons, Big cats, Birds, giraffes, Kenya, Leopards, Lions, Mammals, Wildlife, Workshops & safaris, zebras|

It's only taken me four months to get around to this! I've been busy on video projects until Christmas, but now I've finally been through all my Kenya images, I thought I'd blog the trip. Anyway, now BBC's The Hunt has finished on telly, I need another dose of [...]

Book in Journal Newspaper

By |15 Jun 2015|Categories: Birds, Books, Dolphins, Farne Islands, Grey seals, Newspapers, North East England, Northumberland, Seabirds, Wildlife|

Tony Henderson, the Journal's Environment editor, wrote a piece last Saturday on the 2nd edition of my book, which came out at the beginning of this month. There's a PDF of the article here and you can buy the book here.         Here's a copy of the [...]

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